What it does:

Using graphics, dials and well thought out formats this allows you to easily show project status to stakeholders, wider teams or bored loved-ones.

It has:

A dashboard template

RAG status (Red, Amber, Green)

Highlight report

RAID update (Reliability, Availability, Performance and Capacity)

SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats)

Controlling the dials

Please note that the dials do not not update automatically from a spreadsheet, but need to be moved using the cursor (by hand). We have tried dynamic dials driven by data, but it takes longer for you to change than simply moving the dial by hand!

We like this document a lot, but if you do have a little more budget we would personally go for this one. It’s bigger and better and has more stuff in it like graphs.